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Electronic
Canterbury Tales - Kankedort.Net Index Page
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The Canterbury
Tales in Middle English
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The Canterbury
Tales in Translation
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General
Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
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Sources,
Analogues, & Related Texts
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Online Notes &
Commentary
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Online Articles
& Books
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Student Projects
& Essays
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Online
Bibliography
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Syllabi & Course
Descriptions
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Images &
Multimedia
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Audio Files &
Language Helps
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Potpourri
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Additional
Resources
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Scholar's
Dozen
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What's New? Recent Additions to the ECT
Web Resources by Tale
Electronic
Canterbury Tales - Kankedort.Net Index Page
Fragment I / Group A
The General Prologue
The Knight's Tale
The Miller's Prologue &
Tale
The Reeve's Prologue & Tale
The Cook's Prologue & Tale
Fragment II / Group B1
The Man of Law's
Introduction, Prologue, Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment III /
Group D
The Wife of Bath's
Prologue & Tale
The Friar's Prologue & Tale
The Summoner's
Prologue
& Tale
Fragment IV /
Group E
The
Clerk's Prologue & Tale
The Merchant's Prologue,
Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment V / Group F
The
Squire's Introduction & Tale
The Franklin's
Prologue
& Tale
Fragment VI /
Group C
The Physician's Tale
The Pardoner's Introduction,
Prologue, & Tale
Fragment VII /
Group B2
The Shipman's Tale
The Prioress's Prologue
& Tale
The
Prologue & Tale
of Sir Thopas
The Tale of Melibee
The Monk's Prologue & Tale
The Nun's Priest's Prologue,
Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment VIII /
Group G
The
Second Nun's Prologue & Tale
The Canon's Yeoman's
Prologue & Tale
Fragment IX /
Group H
The Manciple's
Prologue & Tale
Fragment X /
Group I
The Parson's Prologue
& Tale
The Retraction
The Electronic Canterbury Tales:
Troilus
and Criseyde
Hear the Miller's Tale
read in Middle English by Noted Chaucerian A. C. Spearing
Lee Patterson's study has a substantial
essay on the Miller and his tale
You also remember,
don't you, that the Miller
plays the bagpipes?
Related Schools, Programs, and Local & Regional Organizations
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Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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Chaucernet
Archives, a searchable archive of the Chaucernet academic listserv,
dating from September 1995 until the present.
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Delaware
Valley Medieval Association
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International
Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
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International
Medieval Institute, University of Leeds
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The
Lollard Society
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The
Medieval Academy of America
(MAA), the granddaddy of medieval organizations in the US, is entering the
new century with a new attitude.
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Medieval
Academy of America: Committee on Centers and Regional Associations
compiles data on North American (and external) medieval centers, programs,
committees, libraries, and regional associations.
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Medieval
Association of the Pacific
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Medieval
Institute at Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo)
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Medieval
and Renaissance Drama Society
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New
Chaucer Society provides a forum for teachers and scholars of Geoffrey Chaucer and his
age, sponsors a biennial conference, and a number of publishing projects.
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Pontifical
Institute of Mediaeval Studies (U of Toronto)
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Society
for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
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Spanish
Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM)
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Society
for Medieval Languages and Linguistics
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Society
for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages
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TEAMS:
The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages
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Texas
Medieval Association
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UCLA
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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An Online Compendium and Companion
to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
The
Miller's Tale
1. In Middle English
The Miller's
Prologue and Miller's
Tale at the UVa Electronic Text Center.
Read the
Miller's Tale in the context of Fragment
I - Group A.
Read the Miller's
Prologue and Tale according to the Hengwrt ms (Hengwrt - Hg), one of the two most
important early manuscripts, at the University of Toronto's Representative Poetry On-line
site. The Ellesmere
manuscript (El) is the other important early edition.
2. In Modern English Translation
Scott
Gettman's edition of the Canterbury
Tales (Electronic Literature Foundation) is accessible by individual tale &
available in a variety of formats: Middle English, Modern English, Facing Page,
& Interpolated - Glossed (frames; from unknown base text).
- Although unsuitable for formal research or college work, the
ELF is the best online version for younger readers and those unfamiliar with Middle
English. Easily navigable, and the Middle English glosses are very helpful.
The Litrix Reading Room translation
of the Canterbury Tales features rhyming couplets.
Sinan Kökbugur's helpfully glossed hypertext Middle English rendition of the complete Canterbury Tales is available at the Librarius page. Use the Table of
Contents in the left frame to click on a specific Tale, and difficult terms and phrases
are glossed in the lower frame.
Skip
Knox's selection
of Canterbury Tales in Modern English (Boise State) includes the Miller's Prologue
and Miller's
Tale (from an unknown base text).
3. Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
What kind of economic environment did medieval
miller's operate in? Read Mavis Mate's technical article, "The Rise and Fall of Markets in
Southeast England," an e-print of the article published in Canadian Journal
of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire XXXI, April/avril 1996, pp. 59-86.
4. Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts
Read
about Fabliaux at the Harvard Chaucer Page.
Flatulence figures prominently in the Miller's Tale to the degree that we might consider a
"metaphysics of flatulence" in the Middle Ages. See D.L. Ashliman's
listing of tales under Breaking Wind:
Legendary Farts at his Folklore and
Mythology Electronic Texts page (UPittsburg).
Interestingly, Chaucer's Miller's Tale is one of the earliest sources we have that refers
to the great medieval "cycle" plays--the civic drama performed in a number of
cities. See European Medieval Drama
(Sydney Higgins) for a full set of links to this important medieval literature.
- In a reference to the Holy Family (Joseph, Mary, and Jesus),
the Miller proposes to tell "a legende and a lyf / of a carpenter and of his
wyf" (A.3141-42). Read the York
Play of Joseph's Trouble with Mary (York XIII, in Middle English) to see the
"problem" when an old man marries a young woman.
- Nicholas sings the Angelus ad virginum, a reference
to the Annunciation (A.3216). Read the York Annunciation
and Visitation Play (York XII) and the Towneley Annunciation
(Towneley 10). Both plays in Middle English, from UVa.
- Absolon "pleyeth Herodes upon a scaffold hye"
(A.3384). Read the Towneley Herod
the Great (Towneley 16) and York
Play of Herod and the Magi (York XVI) to get a sense of this over-the-top medieval
character. Both plays in Middle English, from UVa.
5. Online Notes & Commentary
Discussion and links concerning the Miller's Prologue and Tale
on Larry D. Benson's superlative Geoffrey
Chaucer Page (Harvard). Includes e-texts of scholarly essays, sources and ancillary
texts, and capsule discussions of key issues. Some of the items related to the
Miller's Tale include:
Dene
Scoggins' English 316 site
(UT Austin) explores "culture, ideology, and issues of canonicity" in the
Canterbury Tales, including a student developed page devoted to the Miller's Tale.
Christy Desmet (UGeorgia) briefly points out the importance of the mystery
plays to the Miller's Tale in "The
Miller's Tale" and Noah's Flood.
6. Online Articles & Books
A generous
new online publishing venture: The
University of California E-Scholarship Editions. "University of
California Press now offers electronic versions of almost all of its
journal titles and over 1400 books online, many of them out of print."
E-journals are available to subscriber institutions; 400 full texts, many
covering medieval topics, are available to the general public; the rest to
members of the UC community.
A selection of Chaucer-related and medieval
studies titles from the University of California related to the Miller's
Tale include:
- Bloch, R.
Howard, and Frances Ferguson, eds. Misogyny,
Misandry, and Misanthropy. (Berkeley: U of California P, 1989
- Elaine Tuttle Hanson's Chaucer and
the Fictions of Gender (Berkeley: U of California P, 1992).
- Steven V. Justice's Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381
(Berkeley: U of California P, 1994).
- Laura Kendrick's Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the
Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: U of California P, 1988).
- H. Marshall Leicester's The Disenchanted Self: Representing the
Subject in the Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: U of California P,
1990).
- Richard Neuse's Chaucer's Dante:
Allegory and Epic Theater in The Canterbury Tales. (Berkeley: U
of California P, 1991).
R.A.
Shoaf's online postprint Dante, Chaucer, and
the Currency of the Word devotes Chapter 10 to "Fragment A and the
Versions of the Household"
 Mari
Pakkala-Weckström (U of Helsinki) has written The
Discourse of Seduction and Intrigue: Linguistic Strategies in Three Fabliaux
in the Canterbury Tales which examines "the different linguistic
strategies used by the participants: wives, husbands and lovers with their
varying roles" in tales of the Miller, Merchant, and Shipman.
7. Student Projects & Essays
Cathy Cupitt compares and contrasts the Knight's and
Miller's Tales in Laughing
at the Carpenter.
Anniina Jokkinen's Essays and Articles on Chaucer
includes a number of sample student essays, of varying quality. Like any other
source, student essays must be evaluated rigorously, cited correctly, and used
responsibly. Jokkinen also compiles a number of resources by Canterbury
Tale: The
Miller's Tale
8. Online Bibliography
9. Syllabi & Course
Descriptions
10. Images & Multimedia
11. Language Helps & Audio Files
Sample
audio files (.wav, .au, .aiff) from the Miller's
Tale, recorded at the Tenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Santa
Monica College, Beverly Hills, July 1996, are available from the Chaucer Studio (Paul
Thomas, Brigham Young).
12. Potpourri
13. The
Next Step
See the
The
Poor Medieval Scholar's
Electronic Bookshelf
for recommended
texts from Google Book Search& Microsoft Live Search.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar indexes
academic material but doesn't yet make all of that material
available. In most cases, you'll have to access your own
institution's electronic databases and library materials to get
the full text versions.
Because it
does not make full texts available,
at this point
Google Scholar is best used as a bibliographical
resource.
Google Book Search & Microsoft
Live Search
These projects
are also showing their growing pains, but they
make a number of (primarily) older studies related to
Chaucer and medieval literature and culture in full
text. You can
contribute to the success of this effort by informing Google
or Microsoft of any incorrect scans, missing pages, or other errors.
Only out-of-copyright books are
available in full and some of the scans are
messy. I will cross list the relevant titles
at the Electronic Canterbury Tales -
Online Books and Essays main page and at the appropriate
web page for each Canterbury Tale.
Google Custom
Search
You can search for handpicked websites related to
Chaucer and medieval culture as recommended by ECT users.
I welcome your
suggestions for suitable websites. Please be patient as
I tune the search terms.
The
Poor Medieval Scholar's
Electronic Bookshelf
and
The
Electronic Canterbury Tales
Bookshop
This subpage of
the Electronic Canterbury Tales offers several
features:
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The Poor Scholar's
Electronic Bookshelf: No cost books (generally
older studies) available via the Google Books project and other
public online projects.
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The ECT Bookshop:
Scroll down to the Electronic
Canterbury Tales Bookshop (with recommended titles) hosted by
Amazon.com.
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Online Search Links
will take you to
major online booksellers and homepages to lesser-known but
excellent specialty bookshops.
I'll cross-list the
recommended Google Books on the appropriate webpage throughout the Electronic
Canterbury Tales under
Online Articles
& Books (on the expanded Electronic
Canterbury Tales - Kankedort.Net Index Page) and also detail them on the webpages devoted to specific Canterbury Tales or associated
pages).
This will be an ongoing
project, so check back periodically for new finds!
How to Document
Print & Electronic Sources:
The Chaucer Pedagogy
Documentation Primer
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The "First Fragment" or
"Group A" (GProl, KnT, MT, RT, CT) of the Canterbury Tales
is available in a nice
Penguin paperback edition
Additional
Chaucer Pages in The Electronic Canterbury Tales
Chaucer the Pilgrim-Narrator & Author
Chaucer's "Orphan" Pilgrims
- Those without a Tale
The
Frame Tale, Later Continuations,
&
Chaucerian Apocrypha
Manuscripts,
Printed Editions, & Electronic Texts
Electronic
Chaucer Texts:
What's Available Online?
Chaucer
in / and Popular Culture
Troilus
and Criseyde
Documentation Primer
Chaucer Pedagogy Page
 
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Check out Geoffrey Chaucer
Hath a Blog, well, just because. And, no, it ain't me. And, no, I
don't get a piece of
this
either, but I like it!
For those in
the UK?
Daniel T. Kline's
Legacy Web Page
(The Kankedort Page) at the U of Alaska Anchoragee
Please be advised that I no longer update most of these pages, so many of the links are likely to be bad,
but will keep them alive in the ongoing battle against "link rot."
Highly Recommended!
Challenge Your Vision of Chaucer with These Critically Acclaimed,
Contemporary
BBC Versions
of
The Miller's Tale, The Wife Of Bath, The Knight's
Tale, The Sea
Captain's (Shipman's) Tale, The Pardoner's Tale & The Man Of Law's Tale
Excellent for Classroom Use!
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